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Russian Revolution

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    Russian Revolution

    Major events and processes of the Russian Revolution

  • Milyukov resigns. Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government.

  • Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary.

  • July The July Days. (3rd and 4th) Workers and soldiers in Petrograd demand the Soviet takes power. Sporadic fighting results and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front. Trotsky arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional

  • The Kornilov putsch. An attempt by General Kornilov to establish a right wing dictatorship is a disastrous flop. Chernov the leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries resigns from the government denouncing Kerensky for complicity in the plot.

  • The Kornilov putsch. An attempt by General Kornilov to establish a right wing dictatorship is a disastrous flop. Chernov the leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries resigns from the government denouncing Kerensky for complicity in the plot.

  • 1917 Oct The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government on the eve of the meeting of 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets.

  • The Germans invade Russia which is all but defenseless as virtually the entire army has deserted.

  • Moscow headquarters of the anarchists surrounded and attacked by Bolshevik troops

  • Bolshevik troops open fire on workers protesting at food shortages in the town of Kolpino

  • The Czechoslovak legion mutinies against the Bolshevik government. Using the railways they are able to sweep away Bolshevik control from vast areas of Russia. The Socialist Revolutionaries support the rising.

  • The left SRs assassinate the German ambassador and are in turn crushed by the Bolsheviks.

  • Mensheviks legalized and allowed to publish Vsegda Vpered in Moscow. Era of relative freedom begins in Bolshevik controlled Russia

  • The Cheka closes down Vsegda Vpered. This marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks.

  • White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious.

  • Poland invades Russia.

  • Peasant unrest sweeps Russia. These risings are suppressed but the New Economic Policy is proclaimed that gives the peasants the right to sell their grain surpluses

  • The old Bolshevik stronghold of Kronstadt rises demanding free election to the Soviets but is suppressed.

  • Soviet Union is formally founded

  • Lenin dies. Trotsky is defeated by a triumvirate of Stalin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. Though Stalin stays in the background it is he who is the real power as the other two will shortly discover.

  • First Five-Year Plan

  • Peasants stage more than 400 peasant revolts against collectivization (mostly Western Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Northern Caucasus)

  • Great Purges

  • The order established a new judicial method, the NKVD troika, and set nationwide quotas for the execution and enslavement of "anti-Soviet elements."